Example sentences of "seen through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father Gordy Carvaho is seen through the twisted window in the bell room of Kalaheo town 's Holy Cross Catholic church , which had its steeple devastated in the storms . |
| 2 | The tiniest corner can become a retreat from the day 's troubles , where a patch of raked sand — seen through the right eyes — is a rippled lake , or a few stems of bamboo a hillside thicket . |
| 3 | Farther along on the same side is the tower house of the 13C and still farther along there is a good market hall of 1895–8 by J. Fialka , the original iron struts of which may be seen through the modern ceiling . |
| 4 | By the time of Pope Gregory I the world of cultivated Roman paganism had receded into a past now only dimly seen through the distorting medium of legend and folklore . |
| 5 | Seen through the disapproving eyes of respectable citizens they were nothing but a disorderly and disorganized rabble , dropouts from the social ladder . |
| 6 | Above , a gibbous moon fought a brave but doomed battle to be seen through the scudding cloud , occasionally emerging to spill its light like a bucket of whitewash over the slates . |
| 7 | Seen through the passing traffic a bearded man in an army cap and mirror shades emerged — the bulging muscles of his torso scantily covered by a black vest — jacket thrown casually over the shoulder — he paused and then walked slowly off the screen . |
| 8 | Unlike the USSR , whose potential for national disruption , so long kept in check , can now be seen through the new transparency of glasnost . |
| 9 | Seen through the lacy walls of the village pool hall the polystyrene floats of the fish farm bobbed busily . |
| 10 | Seen through the sunlit material , he was nameless and faceless , a pleasure device . |
| 11 | As it was , such girls as fancied themselves would leave their cubicle doors open , in the hope that tantalizing glimpses of leg and breast and buttock might be seen through the high and smoky glass , and once Clara , taking advantage of the convention that they were unobserved , walked the whole length of the changing room draped only from the waist down by a small towel , on the pretext of borrowing a safety pin . |
| 12 | There is more than a hint of classical Greece in the architecture , and the blue river seen through the sand-coloured columns gives it a Mediterranean freshness . |
| 13 | THE GREATEST battle of WWII ( fought between the Nazi hordes and the Soviet people ) seen through the deteriorating physical and mental faculties of a young Russian partisan . |
| 14 | The bomb-bursts could be seen through the huge pall of smoke and dust that hung over the city . |
| 15 | The DK was no more than a shadow , seen through the reinforced glass sphere at the front of the speeder . |
| 16 | But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope , muted and unreal . |
| 17 | A scan at the hospital reveals something looking like a mango seen through the wrong end of a very dirty telescope in a thick fog with rain approaching . |
| 18 | She thought of her mother , clear and distinct , very small , seen through the wrong end of a telescope , lying in the wreckage on yellow sand wearing her best black suit , with a small , travelling hat , surrounded by the charred fragments of other people 's flesh . |